Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Walker's first novel traces three generations of a Southern sharecropping family, the Copelands. Its time span, like that of many Afro-American women's novels, is from the 1920s to the 1950s. The central theme of the novel is the tension between systematic societal oppression which attempts to destroy the individual will, and the possibility than an individual can have any personal responsibility under such extreme social conditions. This theme, implicit in all protest novels, is brought to the fore in this book. Walker demonstr...
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